CALL FOR PAPERS

 

51st Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-51) January 3-6, 2018 (Wednesday-Saturday) Hilton Waikoloa Village (http://www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com)

 

Track: Collaboration Systems and technologies

Minitrack: the e changing working environments – adoption, drivers and tools

 

The ‘e’ in combination with many terms like e-mail, e-assessment, or e-learning reflects the ongoing transformation taking place in professional and private domains of life by the further dissemination of the internet and offered internet services. As just one of many examples of changing working environments, enhanced science (e-science) means that “[…] the procedures and practices of traditional forms of science in which scholars engage during their everyday professional lives are undergoing radical change”. [Jankowski, N. W. 2007. Exploring e-Science] It “[…] encapsulate[s] the technologies needed to support the collaborative, multidisciplinary research […] emerging in many fields of science.“ [Hine, C. 2006. New infrastructures for knowledge production] Quantitative evaluations and qualitative evaluations reflect different approaches that both intended to measure usefulness and extent of the change. There are also critical voices that emphasize the low extent of the usage of online tools and are out to understand the reasons for the slow adoption. Besides the behaviouristic perspective, there are new approaches, which may peak in tools supporting the development of new processes in scientists’ work life. Comparable to the already mentioned domains, changing the meaning of the “e” does not just refer to a transformation, but further demands the development of new processes.

 

The mini track invites submission of papers in various areas related to the developments and ongoing changes deriving from a digitalization, transformation into online networks, and changing paradigms of science and research. Perspectives encompass, but are not limited to:

·                 the information and communication technic related aspects like algorithms and infrastructures as well as their usage in science and research like

                           - Big Data Analytics,

- Networks,

- Science 2.0,

- online research environments,

- Open Data,

- Open Access,

- Digitalization of Data,

- Cloud computing,

- Digital Libraries,

- Social Media Research;

·                 socio-technical aspects related to:

-t he usage of IT,

- communication of science,

- and citizen science (Citizen Science, Science Communication, Altmetrics, scientific Publishing, Virtualization);

·                 a sociology of technology and sociology of science dimension:

- usage of tools and web 2.0, collaboration,

- multidisciplinary work,

- virtual social networks,

- habits and communication in digital environments,

- science communication;

·                 organizational and behavioral aspects (digital culture, psychology and media ecology);

·                 Application and usage of technologies in science;

·                 Sustainability in science, scientific developments.

 

Expected contributors may have a background in related fields of an academic discipline with a focus on either technology or user culture or disciplinary research methodology

Papers may encompass developments in both theory and practice.

 

 

Dates and Deadlines:

 

- April 1, 2017: Paper submission begins

 

- June 15, 2017 | 11:59 pm HST : Paper submission deadline

 

- August 17, 2017 : Notification of Acceptance/Rejection

 

- September 22, 2017 : Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication

 

- October 1, 2017 : Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for HICSS-51

 

- January 3-6, 2018: HICSS-51 Conference

 

 

Information on submission

General HICSS-51 Call for Papers (http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors).

 

 

Minitrack Co-chairs:

 

Claudia Koschtial, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, claudia.koschtial@bwl.tu-freiberg.de

 

Carsten Felden, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, carsten.felden@bwl.tu-freiberg.de

 

Glen L. Gray, California State University, Northridge, glen.gray@csun.edu